Ph.D., New York University

Area of Specialization

• Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French literature and culture

Biography

Rori Bloom is a scholar of seventeenth and eighteenth-century French literature and culture. Her research interests include fairy tales, the rococo aesthetic, and libertinism. She is currently working on eighteenth-century food writing. She is also director of the France-Florida Research Institute, one of the centers of excellence supported by the French Embassy.

Selected Publications

Books

• Making the Marvelous: Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Henriette-Julie de Murat, and the Literary Representation of the Decorative Arts (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022).
• Man of Quality, Man of Letters: The Abbé Prévost between Novel and Newspaper (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2009).

Selected Articles

• “Painting in Casanova’s Histoire de ma vie: Paris, 1750-1752,” submitted to Symposium (January 7, 2022)
• “Rewriting the Family Romance: Prostitution and Revolution in Restif de la Bretonne's Le Palais Royal," Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture  43 (2014): 153-168.
• “Un Sopha rose brodé d’argent: Crébillon fils and the Rococo,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 51:1-2 (Spring/Summer 2010): 87-102.